Why are integrated information systems important for decision-making?

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For this exercise you will need to do a little bit of research. You can do this as an individual, or you might join up with a few colleagues and share your results.

The basic information can be found in the following text:

Enhancing Management Decision Making, Chapter 13, Managing the Digital Firm, Management Information Systems, Seventh Edition, Laudon & Laudon, Prentice Hall, p404-424, ISBN 0-13-033066-3.

However this is only a starting point and you are advised to look further for other resources, such as alternative texts or on the internet.

Once you have completed your research and made some notes, try the review questions below.

As a guide, this piece of learning should take about two hours to complete.

Review Questions

Test your understanding of this topic with the following questions.

What is a DSS? Give some examples of what a DSS can do.

How does OLAP support DSS?

What is model-driven DSS?

What are the advantages of using a GDSS for decision making?